Knife hunting in Kappabashi (2008)

Around September of last year, I took Josh and Sir Niles to Kappabashi in search of a knife.  Not just any knife, but rather the mythical 777 times-folded legendary Kusanagi blade.  Well… not quite.  Actually Josh’s grandfather had asked him to get a good quality sushi knife.  After asking around, I was told that Kappabashi (otherwise known as the Kitchen Town) would be the place to check and so off we went.

Kappabashi certainly deserves its reputation as a “Kitchen Town” as you can probably find any kitchen-related item  you could need in one of the many shops that line the street.  As it happens, we also found a really exquisite knife.  The shop owner assured us it had at least 100 layers (if I recall correctly), and it was one of the last blades they sold that had a handle made out of deer horn (apparently such practices are now outlawed?)

It was a beautiful item, and below are some of the pictures Josh took of it.

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Oh, and by the way – kappa statues are just weird… see the rest of the Kappabashi pictures below!

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-NJ

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